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Amazon opening first brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan in time for holidays, will handle pickups and returns — Amazon to Open First Store — The New York City Location to Handle Same-Day-Delivery Inventory, Product Returns — Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to open …
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Carl Icahn says Apple is “dramatically undervalued” in open letter to Tim Cook, asks for an accelerated stock repurchase program — Sale: Apple Shares at Half Price — “IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION” — As a large Apple shareholder with approximately 53 million shares …
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's plans to release its largest smartphone this month, a 5.9" Nexus code-named Shamu — Google Hopes Whale of a Phone Will Make Splash in Phablet Market — Google this month expects to release its largest smartphone, intensifying competition in the fast-growing market …
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Apple suppliers postpone production of 12.9" iPad from December to early 2015 in order to cope with strong iPhone demand — Larger Apple iPad to Be Delayed — Apple Suppliers Concentrating on Meeting Demand for New iPhones — Apple Inc. suppliers have pushed back plans to mass produce … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Lenovo unveils Yoga Tablet 2, Yoga 3 Pro, and Yoga Tablet 2 Pro with built in projector and subwoofer — Lenovo unveils a trio of new ‘Yoga’ devices, including a 13-inch tablet with subwoofer and projector — Lenovo has announced a trio of new devices today as it looks to differentiate …
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| Selena Larson / ReadWrite: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Women: Don't Ask For A Raise, Trust Karma — Proffering career advice more analogous to The Secret than Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women Work, and the Will to Lead, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told women in the tech industry that asking for what you're worth isn't the best way to get ahead.
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Apple's Eddy Cue says U2's free “Songs of Innocence” had 26M complete downloads since September 9 — The Download Heard 'Round the World: iTunes Numbers Show 81 Million ‘Experienced’ U2 Album
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| Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Revealed: How Google engineer Neel Mehta uncovered the Heartbleed security bug — Google engineer Neel Mehta found the Heartbleed bug — The media-shy Google engineer who found the Heartbleed computer security vulnerability has spoken out for the first time, revealing how he found the serious bug … Thanks:@bengrubb
| Sarah / The Imgur Blog: |
Imgur now converts GIF uploads to more compact MP4 format, increases upload limit 10X to 50MB, plans to standardize new “GIFV” container format — Introducing GIFV — GIFs are no longer about .GIFs-the culture of the GIF now trumps the file format.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Yahoo still wants to poach YouTube stars, hopes to host their new channels on Tumblr — Marissa Mayer's Secret Plan For Tumblr Revealed: Make It YouTube — Just after Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in the spring of 2013, several of Marissa Mayer's top product and media executives presented … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat CEO Spiegel Says Untargeted Advertising Is Coming Soon — Snapchat, the popular mobile app for disappearing messages, is close to launching its first disappearing ads as the company sets out to prove its $10 billion valuation. — Evan Spiegel, the startup's 24-year-old co-founder … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple outlines Apple Pay, NFC operation in comprehensive patent filing — For a major mobile payment platform on the verge of launch, not much is known about the nuts and bolts behind Apple Pay. A new patent application discovered on Thursday, however, offers a detailed look at how NFC …
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| Patrick Hoge / San Francisco Business Times: |
Uber and Lyft both get an “F” from the Better Business Bureau; so does Yellow Cab — Uber Technologies has received an “F” — the lowest possible grade — from the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern Coastal California Better Business Bureau as a result of a pattern of complaints …
| The White House / Medium: |
The White House Joins Medium — Hello, Medium! It's the White House. — We're really excited to be here. We'll use this account to share ideas and stories from President Obama and his administration—from a look at what's happening inside the White House to information about policies …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Google asks US Supreme Court to overturn lower court in Oracle's Java API copyright case — Google asks Supreme Court to decide Oracle copyright fight — (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into contentious litigation against Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates mobile layout, implements collage design to highlight most-liked photos; adds new “uploads” tab to display all photos in one place — Facebook Mobile's New Collage Design Highlights Your Best Photos — Not every photo is worth exactly 1,000 words.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Mini-Marketing Lessons For Startups With New Mobile App, Google Primer — Google has rolled out a new iPhone app called Primer, aimed at teaching startups the fundamentals of marketing - with a Google spin, of course. The new app, available only on iOS for now …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Unity game development platform is up for sale: presentation pitching the company circulates at potential acquirers like Google — Unity, one gaming development platform to unite them all, up for sale — A presentation pitching Unity has been circulating around the games industry, sources say.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Hangouts app for Chrome on Windows and Chrome OS — Google today launched a new Hangouts app for Chrome on Windows as well as Chrome OS. You can download the app now directly from the Chrome Web Store. — The release brings Google's chat service to the desktop in a new way.
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Obama asks young Americans to shape new economy, says tech and entrepreneurship is in their DNA — Why I'm Betting on You to Help Shape the New American Economy … You're part of the first generation to grow up in the digital age. Some of you grew up with cell phones tucked into your book bags …
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HubSpot closes at $30.10, market cap stands at $914M after first day of trading — HubSpot Shares Open at $33, Well above IPO Price — Shares in HubSpot opened on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday at $32.99, according to Yahoo Finance, a 32 percent jump from the company's IPO price of $25.
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